The Man With The Skeleton Arms

Lyrics

[Intro] Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms [Verse 1] Ten years ago on Hogsback Mountain The flames was roaring like a lion in a fountain The trees were burning, too many to count 'em And trapped in the middle With fire all around him, was our man... Flanagan and I was out camping that day We started our fire with turpentine and hay The wind was howlin' so I guess we should have known The flames was gonna get blown across thе land [Chorus] Wake up Flanagan, the bartendеr's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms [Verse 2] Two days later when the fire died out Flanagan and I went to rootin' about For to find a little dinner of roasted critter Blackened blackbird eggs and pine-cone fritters That was how we happened on the badly burned man He was yelpin' for help and so we each grabbed a hand Thinking we'd be heroes if we dragged him back home We pulled, but pulled the flesh right offa the bone [Chorus] Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms [Verse 3] Now of all the mad people, that guy was the maddest He pulled a bone across his throat And he pointed right at us Ten years on the lam from that skeletal man He swore his revenge, we've heard his sinister plan: [Bridge] I'll string you up by your hands And lift you over a vat And dip you up to your elbows In the boiling fat It's like an eye for an eye, but ninety-nine times worse I'm gonna do to you what you did to me Except in reverse... [Chorus] Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms [Outro] Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms